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Category Archives: Social Implications
A Button Without The Treat
A few months ago I wrote a post entitled +1 is Explicit, but is not Relevance Feedback. I am often personally concerned that, with many of the posts I write, I am being pedantic. However, last week TechCrunch came to … Continue reading
Miffed and Confused
Have been on a six month blogging hiatus, and wouldn’t you know it.. it took another fun Google article to pull me back. It is a recent FastCompany piece, entitled Google to Zuckerberg, Bing: We Still Innovate. The premise of … Continue reading
Simplicity: Sparsity or Storytelling?
A tweet by @akumar prompted me to punch up this quick blogpost: as with all controversial issues, there’s a positive in google trying bing/image – that they’re not afraid to learn from competition What Amit is referring to is the … Continue reading
Embark Together
I would like to quickly follow up on my previous post on explicitly collaborative information seeking. My claim in that post was that, despite the shared terminology, a service like Aardvark (or Twitter) is not truly collaborative. Let me be … Continue reading
A Fragile Local Maximum for the Web
On Twitter today, Josh Young made an interesting observation to which I would like to call attention: Ya, @jerepick, with “fauxpen” attached, google’s “nav. search as the top of the stack” is a fragile local maximum for the web. This … Continue reading
Google and the Meaning of Open
There is a fantastic Google blog post today by Jonathan Rosenberg on the meaning (and value) of openness. Whooo-boy.. where do we start with this can of worms? Guess I’ll jump right in. Warning: This is probably the longest post … Continue reading
Loss Leaders versus Exploratory Search
Chris Dixon has a post yesterday about search and the social graph. An interesting read, but what struck me the most was a tangent about how current search engines make money: Lost amid this discussion, however, is that the links … Continue reading
More Information Is Positive
Via Greg Linden, I came across this interesting quote from Eric Schmidt about the obligation to help newspapers succeed: Finally, Eric claimed Google has a moral duty to help newspapers succeed: Google sees itself as trying to make the world … Continue reading
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Exploration, Collaboration, and Open Government
What sort of information retrieval system would you build if you knew that all the users of your system would be expert or highly-motivated amateur searchers? What sort of system would you build when you have a very large collection … Continue reading
Breadth Destroys Depth
A few days ago I posted a question about why modern web retrieval systems offer no explicit relevance feedback mechanisms. I wonder if it has anything to do with the following attitude, explained by one of my favorite bloggers, Nick … Continue reading